Taken from Andy Stott's forthcoming album 'Never The Right Time', out via Modern Love on April 16th 2021.  Arranged, produced and recorded by Andy Stott, Vocals and lyrics by Alison Skidmore.

Never The Right Time

The Beginning

Andy Stott - The Beginning

Palmy, the sidewalk palm tree
A Soundscape Created by The Growth Eternal (TGE)
For An Environmental Music series from Leaving Records and Metro Art 

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"Palmy is a little palm tree. And they're growing up, just like you! This song is about both of you growing up. Palmy wrote it after they saw you walking by them. You were on your way to Union Station. Does Palmy's song sound like a journey to Union Station to you?"

Inspired by the sidewalk landscapes of Los Angeles and the way a child might experience the natural world on a daily walk, "Palmy, the sidewalk palm tree" is a playful original soundscape written from the point-of-view of a sproutling that has rooted itself on a small patch of earth. It watches people of all ages and backgrounds on their way to places the neighborhood tree can only imagine from the sights and sounds that surround it.  

The track was created using field recorded sounds, synthesizer, three plants via PlantWave, and a dog.

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Written, performed and produced by The Growth Eternal 
Mastered by Matthew "Matthewdavid" McQueen

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June-July
Part of An Environmental Music series from Metro Art and Leaving Records

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The Growth Eternal (TGE) was started in 2018 as a project stemming from artist Byron Crenshaw’s direct experience and interest in bringing together disparate parts of the self. Crenshaw is a Tulsa-born, Dallas-taught, Black-living, spiritual being who currently lives in Koreatown. He started playing music professionally at 15 years old when he fell in love with jazz after hearing John Coltrane and Duke Ellington's rendition of "In a Sentimental Mood." After attending the University of North Texas and graduating in 2019 with a Jazz Bass Degree, he decided to move to California to pursue a more honest and creative path for himself in music. Eternally he grows, learning as he goes. 

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About An Environmental Music series from Metro Art and Leaving Records: 

Metro Art teamed up with Leaving Records to ask four LA based musicians who draw inspiration from the landscape to create original music soundscapes evoking experiences of nature and transportation in Los Angeles with historic Union Station at its center.

Palmy, the Sidewalk Palm Tree

Free

Palmy, the sidewalk palm tree A Soundscape by The Growth Eternal  // Metro Art x Leaving Records

Available now via http://wichelroede.net

CS + Kreme / Yu Su — “Roast Ghost / Little Forest”

An ambient-ambiance tape experience by two promising new acts from different sides of P-Earth.

With their self-titled debut last year on Total Stasis, CS + Kreme’s leftfield, ambient pop took us by surprise and turned out to become one of our favorite, rinsed home-records from 2016. With a handful of gigs so far exclusively in the open air of Melbourne, the duo, consisting of Conrad Standish and Samuel Karmel (also part of F Ingers), team up again for this release to jam together a bubbly, hypnotizing lullaby before venturing off into a warped dreamscape around the 10 minute mark. On the B-side Vancouver-via-Kaifeng resident Yu Su cleanses the body, mind, and soul with Little Forest. Yu, one-half of You’re Me who previously released Plant Cell Division, combines beautiful snares, easy-going percussion, lush synths, and downtempo beats with a clear message: Chill-out...

Tracklist:

A. CS + Kreme — Roast Ghost (Ultra Lavender Mix) @cs-kreme
B. Yu Su — Little Forest (Spring Mix) @bb-yu

This release contains a limited C45 dark clear pro-dubbed cassette tape, two stickers and a FIY (fold it yourself) sleeve. Everything vacuum sealed together in a transparant plastic bag.

Music by CS + Kreme and Yu Su. Flute by Ela Stiles. Mastered by Brandon Hocura. Artwork and design by Fallon. Idea and production by wichelroede. Released on Monday June 5th 2017.

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CS + Kreme — Roast Ghost (Ultra Lavender Mix)

LIES-100
Terekke-Mix 91
from the upcoming Plant Age lp
to be released Nov 24th 2017

Plant Age

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Terekke-Mix 91 (LIES-100)

ELI KESZLER 'FLYING FLOOR FOR U.S. AIRWAYS'

Extract from STADIUM (SP099), out October 12, 2018
2XLP / CD / DL — SHELTER PRESS

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New York-based artist Eli Keszler is at the apex of his career. This year alone he’s had a three-month-long solo exhibition (“Blue Skies” at Fuse Arts, Bradford, UK), performed internationally in a duo with Laurel Halo, collaborated with noted Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, taught experimental composition and performance at Camp in the Pyrenees mountains, composed music for Turner Prize–winning visual artist Laure Prouvost, and most recently embarked on a world tour with Oneohtrix Point Never.

“Stadium” is his new album for Shelter Press. As his ninth solo record,“Stadium” reflects his move from South Brooklyn to Manhattan, where he produced the album. The constant blurry motion and ever-changing landscapes of the fast-paced island helped him modify and shape his sound into a new kind of film noir. “After we moved into our East Village apartment,” Keszler explains, “we found a guitar pick on the floor that read ‘Stadium’. We looked at each other at the same time and had the same thought. It could have gone any number of ways.” Indeed, there is a startling amount of expression at play on each track, where intersections of melody, restraint and rhythm are used to challenge the idea of memory, impression and space.

Keszler is often mistaken for an electronic musician, but in fact his sounds are raw and natural, produced by hand live in-situ. His performance with the drumset and acoustic percussion are central to his work. He produces almost impossible textures through self-realized methodologies: cascading melodies, a shadow of voices, and a unique pointillistic materiality. Although playing with the intensity of digitally-created music, his communications are done live with no processing. These haptics are what give “Stadium” its depth and its warmth. In a recent interview for Dazed, collaborator Oneohtrix Point Never comments, “I’ve always described his playing as bacterial. He’s able to parallax into very small, very acute, very specific relationships between percussive textures. It’s beyond just being a drummer—he’s a world-building percussionist.”

In “Stadium,” Keszler uses lived experience to realize the most wide-ranging sound he’s created to date. “Stadium” draws out textures from overlapping geographies (from Shinjuku arcades to city streets and Brutalist architecture) and transforms these travelogue field recordings into starting points for composition. He then builds on these environments to create subliminal spaces for his percussion, keyboards and acoustic instruments. His “world-building” techniques are pushed to new levels with mesmerizing string and brass arrangements. Throughout the album, Keszler’s writing, keyboard playing and scoring operate like a sonic channel that transports the listener into a quaking web.

Perhaps this is the “stadium” referred to in the title: a larger network of sound and bodies moving continually, oscillating and turning in on itself. Keszler has explored these ideas before both in his visual work and sound installations—especially notable on projects such as his massive Manhattan Bridge installation ‘Archway’ or his Boston City Hall work "Northern Stair Projection." “Stadium” takes these long-running ideas to new depths. “My installations work with massive city spaces for a complex of individuals,” Keszler states. “The recordings on Stadium are inverted. They are landscapes scaled for the singular. Like a mass collecting in one arena, this music compresses city spaces, genre and instrumentalism into an amorphous form. On the record, there are ruptures of information and happenstance. Like a game, it could go any number of ways.”

Stadium

ELI KESZLER 'FLYING FLOOR FOR U.S. AIRWAYS' (SP099)

Tristan Arp - Pipeline (Machine Woman Rework)

Buy/Stream here: http://smarturl.it/hp011r-rework

@tristanarp @machinewoman

Pipeline (Machine Woman Rework)

hello sir would you like some coffee?
what are you doing, just standing around handing out coffee at 6am?
well when i was in the service, my dad sent me this book by the guy who started this company 
and every word... i wanted to BE that guy
and the guy who wrote it started this company 
you know... i used to have a corolla

I Was That Book

b2. trancehall [master]

chlor dub

debut album Ways out Oct30 LR All Genre 2020
https://xylasf.bandcamp.com/album/ways
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Leaving Records introduces San Francisco’s Xyla to the world. The queer bpoc classical musician-turned-producer’s debut full-length Ways presents a fresh, electronic yet organic sound that deftly skates over and around genre limitations into a deeply felt, lush and hyper-futuristic group of songs. Echoes of sweaty rave anthems and classic IDM head trips can be heard strewn throughout Ways’ serpentine compositions, awash in deep ambient swirls and intriguingly twisted samples. Of the title album’s title, Xyla states, “Sometimes you think of how things could’ve been. There’s a million different ways things can go.” The eight tracks on Ways each feel like a uniquely personal expression, heavy feelings processed by the producer’s classical music training and extrapolated through exciting self-taught production methods.  
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cover art by Kendra Azulírís 
instagram.com/water_witch

TAPES

Xyla - Feel

From Meemo Comma - "Neon Genesis: Soul Into Matter²" out March 19th
https://meemocomma.bandcamp.com/album/neon-genesis-soul-into-matter

On "Neon Genesis: Soul Into Matter²" Meemo Comma (a.k.a. Lara Rix-Martin) takes Kabbalistic text and Jewish prayer and guides them through twinkling ambient synths, breakbeats and cranking industrial noise, full of strange wonder and drama. You can hear soft synths transmuted into choirs of seraphim and moments of occulted dancefloor rapture, from Aramaic chanting and ravey breakbeats to readings from the Zohar. It is quite beautiful at times.

Jewish mysticism is at the root of Western esoteric beliefs and therefore has formed the structure of many films and books that explore the question of humanity. Inspired by the visuals of Evangelion and nineties anime soundtracks such as Ghost In The Shell (and its later Stand Alone Complex series), the new Meemo Comma album is a soundtrack to an imaginary anime that, like its real counterparts (e.g. Full Metal Alchemist), takes the beautiful parts of Kabbalah and sets them to science fiction stories.

When asked about the themes that inform her new album, Lara Rix-Martin says "Judaism is filled with many tales and teachings that prevail in science fiction to this day - whether consciously or not. Sci-Fi is the genre best equipped to explore the immensity and challenges of human experience. Something that Judaism has also been attempting for over three thousand years."

"I watched Ghost in the Shell when I was 14 and it was so striking, visually and sonically.  The soundtrack has acted as a backdrop to explore my Jewish identity. I have been reading the Talmud since last year, discovering a deeper love for Jewish stories and teachings. There are some beautiful, hopeful ideas in Kabbalah too, which were a central inspiration to this album such as the idea that the first human was non-gendered and just this form made up from the qualities of HaShem (God) who performed 'Tzimtzum', contracted their form using their Ein Sof (eternal light) to create 'Adam Kadmon' whose form split into all human souls." 

Lara playfully subheads her album: “In the year 5781 humanity is ever closer to becoming a singular consciousness. A team of humans are forming an android, Adam Kadmon (CODENAME: UNIT KADMON). First, humans have to gain higher consciousness guided by the Sefirot.“ While you don't have to know about these influences to enjoy the music, it stands true that the intention is an irreverent love letter to the way grand myths are birthed into the future through new forms, retaining their beauty and elegance.